Daily Republican., 1887-08-19
MORE WRECKS.
Coiored Porter Crushed to Death-A
Wild Engines Work.


PIrTsBURG, August 18 About 4
,'Slock this morning the through ex.
press train, which left Chicago ct 3I5
yesterday afternoon over the Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railway, was
wrecksd at Bay ard, o., on the Pitts
burg and CleSslspd road, about 81
miles west Of Pittsburg. When the
rain reached Alliance. o It was found
'has the Fort Wsyneroad WAS obstruct
u BY Hsfreight wreck some miles east
of Alliance. and the train was ordered
atound BY the Cleveland ana Pit,shurg
road.
The train was made up of three bag.
gage aud express cars, one smoker, one
passenger coach, two Chicago sleepers,
and Toledo sleeping oar called the
Topic" which was attached to the
rear Of the train.
After leaving Alliance the train was
proceeding At the rate Of thirty miles
an hour. A. 1t swung around . sharp
curve near Bsysrd the rails spread aud
the Toledo sleepsr was derailed, falling
on its side. The two Chicago sleepers
also jumped tho track, but after run
nina nearly three hundred yards they
were pulled ON again and escaped in
Jury. When the crash came the porter,
o. Warner, ran to the forward platform
and jumped, bat got off on the wrong
side of the Car, and when 1t fell over on
its side was buried under 10. Fortunately
there were only three passengers and
the fiagman on the sleeper, aud In the
meantime they were being tossed about
the car like balls, and all seriously
hurt.
When tho train stopped the passen.
gers and trainmen rushed back to as.
certain what damage had been done
The injured were speedily removed
from the car, but no tracs Of the porter
could be found. 1t was not until nearly
an hour afterwards that q hand was
seen projecting beyond the wreck Of
the sleeper. Work was Immediately
commenced, and the crushed and
mansled body was found.
Tho passengers In tbs other sleepe.s
were badly shaken mp. but sustained
no serious injuries. The injured were
taken TO hotel at Bayard, and placed
In the care Of the company's phyei
ciaus, and the train came on 70 Pitts.
burg, arriving there three hours late,
WooNsoCKET, r. l.. August 18,-As
the "Hawhide" freight on the Milford
road, due st Milford at midnight, was
approaching the terminus Of the rails
In Milford, Mass the brakes did not
work. the engine was running with
such force that the end OF the rails was
cleared and dash made into meadow,
whore the locomotive sank deep into
the earth. Engineer Croft was thrown
from the cab and seriously ipj jured.
One brakeman bad both legs broken.
NAPERyILLE, Ill, August 18.-Two
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy live
stock trains collided In q fog this morn.
Ing. Ono OF the engines plowed through
three cars loaded with fat steers for
Chicago and the beasts were scattered
mangled and bleeding, along the track
or pitched down twenty foot embank
ment. A hog car was completely tele.
scoped BY the tender and many hogs
were crushed. Yankee Robinson, On
engineer, WAS seriously injured.
CHICAGO, August 1S.-An attem pt
was made last night near Belyidere,
ILL.,, to wreck paSsen ger train on the
Northwestern Railroad. Psisons living
In the vicinity heard strange noises
near tho Track, and upon going to the
scene caught view of two men hurry
moment, and was nearly derailed BY q
huge stone that had been placed be-
tween the rails. The ow-cAtcher was
smashed, but no other damage wac
done. Fifty passengers were aboard
the train.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 19.-Morris
thompson, the engineer who was to
have run the second section OF the Yves.
fARn ha
lion at $50 last night, scked his engine
down from the round house at half past
nine and stood on the elevated road
just above the switch tower waiting for
the train to arrive from New York,
When he backed down and stopped he
reversed his engine and leaned out of
his cab window, looking toward Powell.
ton avenue for his train. The fireman
got OF the engine to get a piece of ice
from the Ice house and had lust got
across the track toward Filbert street
when shifting engine ran noiselsssly ly
up the track pas. his engine. Engineer
Thompson was leaning far out OF his
cab and had his loft hand on the
throttle. The shlster crashed ilto his
engine and he was thrown out of the
window under the driving wheels OF
HIS own engine.
The force of the collision started his
enGiae and the big driving wheels and
the trucks Of the tender passed over his
body. His right arm was torn from the
shoulder socket. Els body was 80 hOr.
ribly maIgled that he was disern.
boweleG. The shifting engine was
stoppsd and the crow Of snifters ran to
the injured engineer, whose manRled
body drlpped with blood when 1t was
picked up. Through bis Rroaus OF
agony Thompson called several times
Tor his wife. The shifting crew carried
Elm to the engine and he Wac taken 20
the Powelton Avenue Station aud then
to the Presbyterian Hospital, where the
ply sicians Baid he could not live
through the night. Nobody on the
shifting engine was injured and nobody
Could account for the shifting engine
getting on to the track with the other
sngtne.
After Thompson's engine had run
over him 1t dashed on at the rate of 20
miles an hour on the west-bound track
OF the elevated road. The fireman, in
the excitement, hadn'G been able to get
back ON his engine, and without any,
body to check its speed 1t rushsd on,
thundered across ths bridge that spans
'he Schuylktll, end swung around the
sharp curve and dashed madly on with
Destruction glaring out Of the head
light.
While the engine was dAshipg over
the bridge the startling message: "Clear
the road 393 Is running Wild"
WIS flashed over the wires. In
front OF the little telegraph shapty at
Thirtieth street stood engine No. l, 1C0,
in charge Of Engineer Job Kelley. The